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Spatten1
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 04:00 pm: |
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Man, I can't remember where we got that shine, just that it was under the counterr and outside that damn NC ABC system. That has been a cool area for a long time. One of my buddies teaches at UNC Ashville. He loves it. Growing up in Charlotte blew. |
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Glitch
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 04:09 pm: |
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I can imagine. Charlotte was the first "big city" I remember visiting. Didn't care for it much at all. Asheville is cool, that was where we'd go when we went "over the mountain, into town" there or Hickory. I liked Asheville much more than Hickory. Asheville is about 20 or 30 minutes from where my folks live now. Damn...I'm getting homesick |
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Spectrum
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 04:52 pm: |
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Ok so while you guys are beatin up on rednecks and hillbillys I have to pipe in. I was born and raised in rural Texas. At one time, I was probably as redneck as they come. But as the Alabama song says "I'm not that way anymore"! In fact, I'm now an executive in a fortune 100 company and probably as far from my roots as I could get. Some wisdom from my dear old departed dad (redneck of rednecks). "How dumb or smart you are depends on what part of the world you happen to be standing in at the time". Probably not an original quote from my dad but still wise none the less. For example, I was involved in a corporate boot camp type activity a few years back that took place in the NC mountains. One of my coworkers from the UK was having a great time making fun of how one of the locals talked and commenting on how dumb these mountain folk must be. This local was facilitating a high rope activity and when my UK friends turn came you can imagine the result. After my friend came down and was whining and complaining about almost getting killed, I reminded him of how badly he had talked about they guy who mistreated him. I then told him my dad's saying and made note of the fact that he was standing in his tormentors world at the moment. At that point I asked him "who's the dumb one now"? |
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Rainman
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 05:09 pm: |
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Michigan hillbilly. Proud of it. Loved the folks up in McDowell County, NC. They treated me right, once they were sure I wasn't trying to buy property up there. |
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Glitch
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 05:09 pm: |
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"How dumb or smart you are depends on what part of the world you happen to be standing in at the time". I like that. I'm not beating up on hillbillies, rednecks maybe. There is a big difference. |
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Spatten1
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 05:30 pm: |
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I'm not beating up on hillbillies, rednecks maybe. There is a big difference. I'm down with the difference, being from the same part of the world. When I bitch about rednecks it's generally ignorant, judgemental, hostile, and racist types. I grew up chewing RedMan and eating catfish out of the creek down the street. I still was not the nasty kind of southerner I think of as a redneck. |
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Firebolt32
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 05:33 pm: |
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WRT NC being full of rednecks, I've found they're everywhere, especially in Colorado. Come to Florida...Sounds like something out of Polk County down here. Home of the Buellcati! Someone close go by and take a look at it. Have him point out these awesome mods. |
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Spectrum
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 07:21 pm: |
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I guess we have a difference in the definition of the term redneck. Where I come from, a redneck is a poor working slob. He spends his day working out doors in the hot Texas sun. Thus having a red neck from being sun burnt. Every other part of the body is covered by work clothes or hat and the only part that gets burnt is his neck. As far as I'm concerned, that's the origin of the term "redneck". Any time I here the term, I assume your talking about my origin. |
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Whodom
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 07:32 pm: |
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Here's the historical definition: "REDNECKS The origins of this term Redneck are Scottish and refer to supporters of the National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant, or "Covenanters", largely Lowland Presbyterians, many of whom would flee Scotland for Ulster (Northern Ireland) during persecutions by the British Crown. The Covenanters of 1638 and 1641 signed the documents that stated that Scotland desired the Presbyterian form of church government and would not accept the Church of England as its official state church. Many Covenanters signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia; hence the term "Red neck", (rednecks) which became slang for a Scottish dissenter*. One Scottish immigrant, interviewed by the author, remembered a Presbyterian minister, one Dr. Coulter, in Glasgow in the 1940's wearing a red clerical collar -- is this symbolic of the "rednecks"? Since many Ulster-Scottish settlers in America (especially the South) were Presbyterian, the term was applied to them, and then, later, their Southern descendants. One of the earliest examples of its use comes from 1830, when an author noted that "red-neck" was a "name bestowed upon the Presbyterians." It makes you wonder if the originators of the ever-present "redneck" joke are aware of the term’s origins - Rednecks? *Another term for Presbyterians in Ireland was a "Blackmouth". Members of the Church of Ireland (Anglicans) used this as a slur, referring to the fact that one could tell a Presbyterian by the black stains around his mouth from eating blackberries while at secret, illegal Presbyterian Church Services in the countryside. " and yes, I'm a Presbyterian... |
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Slaughter
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 - 07:33 pm: |
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All y'alls just bein' jealous 'cos his cams are BIGGER than all y'alls. |
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